Corporal punishment is a form of mental and physical torture that causes pain, humiliation, low self-esteem, deep psychological trauma, distress and irreparable mental damage, experts said.
It may causes a multitude physical and social problems like school drop- outs, mood and anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, cardio- vascular disease, arthritis, obesity including irreparable mental damage," said Psychology expert Prof Dr MSI Mullick.
A parent, whom the child is totally dependent on, when uses physical punishment, the child feels betrayed in the worst way possible. Regular physical punishment is responsible for lack of faith and may provoke rebellion, he added.
Dr. Mullick also the Chairman, Department of Psychiatry of Bangabandhu SheikhMujibMedicalUniversity said, "Ch...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $1.5 million for strengthening the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) as a support of the government’s institutional development initiatives. ADB and the Government of Bangladesh on November 14 signed a technical assistance (TA) grant agreement to this effect.
The Government of Japan is financing the TA through the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. ADB will administer the fund, and provide technical support for project implementation, says a press release.
The release said the technical assistance project will help modernize the RHD and streamline its business processes. It will also support RHD to improve its schemes for maintenance of roads and bridges, and overloading control.
US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal has said the delay in reaching a consensus on a framework for an interim government to oversee the next election may push Bangladeshi citizens to take to the streets to express their frustrations.
“The longer the two sides cannot agree on a framework for an interim government to oversee the next election, the more likely Bangladeshi citizens will take to the streets to express their frustrations,” she wrote in her Nov-15 (op-ed) write-up ‘Fighting for Democracy in South Asia: The Great Debate ’.
DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the programme as chief guest. Chairman of the Department of Zoology Prof Dr MA Howlader presided over ...
DU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the programme as chief guest. Chairman of the Department of Zoology Prof Dr MA Howlader presided over ...
